At 02:11 PM 5/19/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>In both cases it could be a long time before the areas were the same as they
>were before the fire. That is not to say they will be ugly or barren, but
>they will be different. Depending on what kind of vegetation burned,
We used to run into this when I was fighting fire. Environmentalists would
be pissed that trees burnt during a fire, even lightning started fires, and
would say how that part of land was ruined forever. Nothing could be
further from the truth. Normally within a year grass would be growning and
the deer and elk would have a new food source. Within just a couple years
saplings would be growing. The thing that most people forget about nature
is that everything is a cycle. When you get right down to it, there is no
such thing as virgin timber.
>At the next AZ Geocaching Get-together (that I can get to!), I'll try to
>remember to bring my fire pack and some typical hand tools (seems like there
>is quite a bit of interest on this list). As I type this, we have a 10%
I still have my pulaski. :-)
Scott
Team My Blue Heaven
www.myblueheaven.com/geocache
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